The One is about to unlock the gates at GITMO and hand Bin Laden the keys

[JohnDeere]

Obama administration moves to suspend Gitmo trialsGUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba – Military judges will consider Wednesday whether to halt the Guantanamo war crimes trials after President Barack Obama ordered prosecutors to request a 120-day suspension during a review of the system used to try suspected terrorists.

The motions, filed just hours after Obama's inauguration, will be heard in the cases of five men charged in the Sept. 11 attacks and of Canadian Omar Khadr, who is accused of killing an American soldier with a grenade in Afghanistan in 2002.

"It has the practical effect of stopping the process, probably forever," said Navy Lt. Cmdr. William Kuebler, Khadr's defense lawyer.

Obama has said he will close the military detention center in Cuba, where the U.S. holds about 245 men, and he had been expected to halt the widely criticized war-crimes trials created by former President George W. Bush and Congress in 2006.

In the motion filed for the Sept. 11 case, U.S. military prosecutor Clay Trivett says a continuance is necessary in all pending cases because the review may result in significant changes to the system.

"The interests of justice served by granting the requested continuance outweigh the interests of both the public and the accused in a prompt trial," Trivett wrote.

The motion was written at the direction of the president and Defense Secretary Robert Gates, he said.

"It will permit the newly inaugurated president and his administration to undertake a thorough review of both the pending cases and the military commissions process generally," he added.

There are war crimes charges pending against 21 men being held at Guantanamo, including the five charged with murder and other crimes in the Sept. 11 case. Judges would be required to suspend the other cases as well, though hearings may not be necessary.

[Tarheel]

Well, it is the beginning of fulfilling one of The ONE's campaign promises.  He'll probably set them free or turn them all over to The World Court in The Hague (which would basically be the same result).

Of course, I'm sure there are some lefty wing-nuts out there who will want W, Cheney, Rove, and some of the FoxNews editors put on Trial for War Crimes in which case The ONE will have to re-open Gitmo to house them.

[CCTAU]

SO when one of these guys are released and they in turn bomb us and kill more, do we then get to sue the ONE and his minions?

[Tarheel]

SO when one of these guys are released and they in turn bomb us and kill more, do we then get to sue the ONE and his minions?

I'd like to take a moment to point out to any nay-sayers that what CCTAU says is exactly what these followers of the religion of perpetual rage are doing.  Please reference one of my posts from last week:

I'm shocked!  Shocked that ANY follower of the religion of perpetual rage would 'return' to terrorism! (sarcasm)

This report follows hot-on-the-heels of the report about the closing of Gitmo, from FoxNews...all emphasis is my own, as usual:

Pentagon: Guantanamo Detainees Returning to Terrorism
The number of Gitmo detainees who rejoined terrorist missions after being released is on the rise, according to the Pentagon.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

WASHINGTON -- Terror suspects who have been held but released from Guantanamo Bay are increasingly returning to the fight against the United States and its allies, the Pentagon said Tuesday.

Sixty-one detainees released from the U.S. Navy base prison in Cuba are believed to have rejoined the fight, said Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell, citing data from December. That's up from 37 as of March 2008, Morrell said.

The new figures come as President-elect Barack Obama prepares to issue an executive order during his first week in office to close the controversial prison.
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The link:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/13/pentagon-guantanamo-detainees-returning-terrorism/